Taja Cheek returns with a 13-track follow-up to I Killed Your Dog, out August 14 on Mexican Summer, and a lead single that moves from coiled calm to explosive release.
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Taja Cheek returns with a 13-track follow-up to I Killed Your Dog, out August 14 on Mexican Summer, and a lead single that moves from coiled calm to explosive release.
The Montreal band’s ninth album sets aside percussion entirely, letting Robin Wattie’s voice and layers of distorted guitar carry the emotional weight.
A.G. Syjuco does not announce himself loudly. Under the name Black Leather Birds he has spent the last five years building a body of work that feels less like a catalogue of releases and more like a series of rooms you enter and do not entirely leave. Launched during the 2020 pandemic as a personal …
The ensemble brings sewing machines, spinning wheels, and credit cards to the stage for the release of Sharper Than a Needle, a work that reconfigures the sounds and stories of garment workers.
The composer returns to form with three pieces built from note sequences, chord roots, and almost nothing else.
Two longform soundscapes on the new album turn field recordings into a tactile record of travel, with one piece moving forward through a Chilean port city and the other unwinding backward across festival dates in Europe.
Five tracks of slow-building tension and literary unease. Black Leather Birds turns a sealed room and an ordinary cardboard box into a deeply human meditation on anxiety, presence and what we learn to live with.
In a month marked by extreme heat and societal dread, the publication’s staff selected ferocious noise, apocalyptic soundtracks, and ancient Irish drone.
The duo’s first album since 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived via a cryptic campaign and global listening sessions. It confronts the fire of the present through a darker, more direct sound.
A dozen guest artists dismantle and rebuild the 2023 album, yielding a more fractured but often compelling sister record.
